WB: Mega hand-washing event held in North 24 Parganas with record participation
Dec 06, 2015, at 04:22 am
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IBNS): West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district's administration, with the support of the UNICEF, state government and the Mission Nirmal Bangla Programme, hosted an initiative: 'Hand-washing at mass scale in multiple locations' throughout the district on Friday.
Dec 06, 2015, at 02:36 am
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IBNS): Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) welcomes the firm decision of the Delhi government to cut down traffic volume, eliminate emissions from coal powered plants and push for tighter emissions standards to curb killer air pollution in the city.
175,000 die every year from unsafe food in South-East Asia Region: WHO
Dec 04, 2015, at 08:13 pm
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IBNS) More than 150 million people fall sick and 175 000 die every year after consuming contaminated and unsafe food in the WHO South-East Asia Region, according to the first World Health Organization (WHO) report on foodborne diseases.
Kolkata: Medical student died due to dengue
Dec 04, 2015, at 01:39 am
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IBNS): A medical student died due to dengue in Kolkata's private hospital on Wednesday, reports said on Thursday.
Global map reveals 12 million hectares of forest at risk: Report
Dec 04, 2015, at 01:09 am
Paris, Dec 3 (IBNS): A new report released at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris has revealed that a forest area larger than Portugal is at risk from coal mining worldwide, with forests in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, India, Colombia and the United States particularly vulnerable.
Dec 02, 2015, at 09:24 pm
Kolkata, Dec 2 (IBNS): The Apollo Group of Hospitals, the Asia’s foremost integrated healthcare organizations, organized their group’s annual nursing conclave and leadership meet on Wednesday.
US Consulate General, Kolkata observes World AIDS Day
Dec 02, 2015, at 03:48 am
Kolkata, Dec 1 (IBNS) The U.S. Consulate General, Kolkata in association with Apollo Gleneagles Hospital has observed World AIDS Day.
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor inaugurates Sugar Free Dessert Challenge
Nov 30, 2015, at 10:22 pm
Mumbai, Nov 30 (IBNS) Celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor recently kicked off the national “Sugar Free Dessert Challengeâ€, to find the best home cook dessert chef in India.
Bhopal tragedy activists cry foul against Modi
Nov 30, 2015, at 08:36 pm
Bhopal, Nov 30 (IBNS) On the occasion of the 31st Anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, leaders of five organisations jointly fighting for the rights of the survivors, on Monday condemned the Modi government for its failure in resolving the lingering issues of the disaster.
Nov 29, 2015, at 12:43 am
Kolkata, Nov 28 (IBNS) : While still considered an innovative and highly skilled technique, robotic prostate removal surgery seems to have paved its place as a widespread prostate cancer treatment.
Quest for new treatment options for AIDS must continue, says ISCR
Nov 28, 2015, at 09:16 pm
Kolkata / Mumbai, Nov 28 (IBNS): “Getting to Zero†was the theme selected in 2011 through to the end of 2015 by the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) to commemorate World AIDS Day on Dec 1.
Srinagar records coldest night
Nov 28, 2015, at 09:11 pm
Srinagar, Nov 28 (IBNS) The minimum temperature in J&K's summer capital Srinagar was recorded at minus 0.5 degree celsius as all other places in the Kashmir Valley also stood below the freezing point, an official said on Saturday.
WB needs to increase health spending over Rs.6500 Cr by 2018: IIHMR
Nov 28, 2015, at 04:49 am
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IBNS): Responding to rise in the Public Health Expenditure as according to the proposal made by the National Health Policy, International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR Delhi) held a press conference in Kolkata on Friday to highlight various needs, challenges and aspects influencing the government to spend on the health sector in West Bengal.
Nov 28, 2015, at 12:35 am
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IBNS): On the final day of the National Consultation on Crop Loss Estimation, Relief and Compensation, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) called for global action to develop safety nets to shield farmers from the consequences of extreme weather events.
Nov 27, 2015, at 01:50 am
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IBNS): Indian farmers are reeling under extreme weather events and need protective measures to ensure that India's largest occupational sector-agriculture-does not decline further, experts at CSE consultation said.
Heinrich Popow to conduct first ever running clinic for people-with disabilities in India
Nov 26, 2015, at 10:21 pm
Mumbai, Nov 26 (IBNS): Ottobock Healthcare, the world-leading suppliers of innovative solutions for people with limited mobility, will be organizing the first edition of their Running Clinics in Mumbai, this December.
Pakistan girl undergoes heart surgery in Kolkata
Nov 26, 2015, at 09:06 pm
Kolkata, Nov 26 (IBNS) Spreading a message of peace, a four-year-old Pakistani girl has underwent a heart surgery in Kolkata on Tuesday.
The LHC collides ions at new record energy
Nov 26, 2015, at 04:36 am
Geneva, Nov 25 (IBNS) After the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider and its first months of data taking with proton collisions at a new energy frontier, the LHC is moving to a new phase, with the first lead-ion collisions of season 2 at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment.
GVK EMRI gets Gold Recognition Award for the year 2015 by American Heart Association
Nov 25, 2015, at 07:52 pm
Hyderabad, Nov 25 (IBNS): American Heart Association has given Gold Recognition Award to GVK EMRI for the year 2015 for the exemplary First Aid, CPR and Advanced Cardiovascular Care Life Saving Training Programs.
Kolkata: Ganga Aarti performed by International Marwari Federation
Nov 23, 2015, at 05:52 am
Kolkata, Nov 22 (IBNS) : International Marwari Federation today evening organized the Grand event of Ganga Aarti with its launch for the first time in Kolkata at the Princep Ghat.
Nov 23, 2015, at 01:45 am
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IBNS) With the aim to expand the expanse of promotive and preventive health care, and reduce the burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the country, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare J P Nadda has urged the family medicine practitioners to come up with solutions for further improving preventive and promotive health care in the country.
US consulate hosts Green Fair in Kolkata
Nov 21, 2015, at 04:13 am
Kolkata, Nov 20 (IBNS): The US Consulate Kolkata in collaboration with the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), hosted its first Green Fair on Friday at the American Centre in Kolkata.
CMRI chosen for mock disaster management exercise by West Bengal government
Nov 19, 2015, at 11:37 pm
Kolkata, Nov 19 (IBNS) The Department of Disaster Management, Government of West Bengal and National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India conducted a mock exercise at The Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) among other places on Thursday.
Improved access to antibiotics could avert deaths of children under five in India: Study
Nov 19, 2015, at 04:01 am
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IBNS): A new Lancet study out from researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) on Wednesday estimates that improved access to antibiotics could avert the deaths of several thousand children under five in India alone.
Early detection key to curing lung cancer
Nov 16, 2015, at 11:35 pm
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IBNS) As doctors and healthcare staff in hospitals build awareness about lung cancer this month (November), their biggest concern is that the dreaded disease often goes undetected due to lack of awareness among patients.
Apollo Hospitals performs Asia's first CHLT
Nov 16, 2015, at 06:47 pm
Chennai, Nov 16 (IBNS) Apollo Hospitals became Asia's first healthcare unit to perform a complex combined heart and liver transplant (CHLT), when it did so on a 30 year old man recently.
66.11% of Indian children exhibit abnormal level of sugar in their body: SRL Study
Nov 13, 2015, at 11:00 pm
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IBNS): SRL Diagnostics recently released a three year long pan India data mining survey (2012 – 2014) on Hba1C tests that revealed that around 66.11 % Indian children possess abnormal levels of sugar in their body.
Woman's risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes nearly halved over 25 years – UN report
Nov 13, 2015, at 03:23 pm
New York, Nov 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS):Maternal mortality has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, United Nations agencies and the World Bank reported today, giving fresh impetus to efforts to reach by 2030 the virtual elimination of women’s chances of dying from pregnancy-related causes as part of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals.
CSE exposure monitoring on Diwali finds 'unacceptably' high levels of pollution
Nov 12, 2015, at 11:08 pm
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IBNS): Centre for Science and Environment has released the results of the exposure monitoring that it carried out on Diwali night as well as the analysis of the official ambient monitoring data on the evening of Diwali.
India's GSAT-15 communication satellite launched successfully
Nov 11, 2015, at 03:11 pm
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IBNS) GSAT-15, India’s latest communications satellite, was launched successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-227 launch Vehicle in the early morning hours of Wednesday, officials said.